James Biederman, Don't Have Red in SightApril 26 - May 26, 2013

Janet Kurnatowski is pleased to present “Don’t Have Red in Sight”, new paintings by James Biederman. This will be his fourth one – person exhibition with Janet Kurnatowski, who represents his current work. The exhibition run from April 26 – May 26th. The gallery will have extended hours on Friday, May 10th, till 9pm for Greenpoint Gallery night. Please join the artist for an opening reception on Friday , April 26th from 7-9pm.

Reductive yet humanistic, the recent paintings of James Biederman encompass the sensory world of color contained and expanded within shaped canvases which alter their structural reading while questioning the notion of wholeness. The seemingly limited color palette gains complexity and momentum through modulation, layered luminosity and their engagement with the biomorphic or geometric shape of the support. The dialogue between the disjointed painted shapes and the quirky structural supports presents an explorative arena of form and color allowing the paintings to breath.

James Biederman is the recipient of the 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, Joan Mitchell, Adolph Gottlieb, Pollock-Krasner, Change Inc., NYFA and two NEA grants. He exhibited in Documenta 7 and is in collections of MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pompidou, Kroller-Mueller, National Gallery of Australia, Eversen, Cincinnati Art Museum, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T. and The Wadsworth Atheneum Museums. He studied art at Yale University and the Whitney Museum Independent Study program. For more information or images please contact the gallery.